Considering taking Taiko to his first ever show, have been druming up the courage, visiting lots of shows to spectate and hopefully prepare for the big debut.

We were at the London cat club show in Woking at the weekend and my there were some gorgeous cats

Not sure how our little Taik will fare, but he is such a show off at home, he deserves at least a chance. He has been posing for me this evening and these are the results of our photo shoot...
And with his pal Tino. Tino is a bit of a shy boy so i don't think he'd enjoy the show experience. (but i didn't want to leave him out completely).

I think Taiko is a lovely boy and you should definately give showing a try It might be for him, it might not but it's always worth going along anyway to find out and you get to meet some lovely people too

Well Taiko coped really well at the bengal cat Club Show, Newbury, to say it was his first ever show experience. He behaved very well for the judges, although he is such an active cat and general wrigglebottom sitting still is not his forte.

Taiko was placed 4th in his open and got 2 1st's a 2nd and a 3rd in his side classes.

It was a great learning experience, there are a few things I would do differently next time...

I think Taiko was really ready to get out of that small pen by the end of the day, next time I think i will go for a double pen.

And I would make sure he has had a big breakfast beforehand, as he didn't touch a bite to eat all day at the show.
I didn't want him to feel travel sick so he just had the orijen we leave down, but as we set off early in the morning i'm not sure he ate that much before we left.

He is a very vocal kitty and there was one point where I felt so rotten as he was really appealing for me to let him out and pushing his legs through the bars trying to escape. He did settle down in the afternoon, but I do think some practice at home, at being in a confined space or pen may have helped to familiarise him in hindsight. May look into buying a pen to test the water at home and put him in just for short spells so that he is used to it for next time.

It was a really enjoyable day and there were some absolutley beautiful bengals there. Congratulations to everyone and most importantly to their cats!

aww well done kate & taiko! i find most of mine aren't interested in food while at the shows either. if you take him to a few more he'll get more used to it & the idea of practising with a pen at home is a good one. i find a metal dog crate works well.
well done on his firsts in his side classes, very good results!

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